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beart on Nov 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Avoiding “OR” for Better Query Performance

I don't understand why that makes sense? Isn't the point of a declarative language to remove the need to consider these details?

cyborgx7 on Nov 11, 2019 [–]

I have long since resigned myself to the fact that "declarative language" in practice only means that you don't have to manually write the for-loops anymore. The concept of declarative languages seems like it has so much potential, but I haven't seen any that have even come close to it.

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